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How to Make Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks in Minecraft

Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks — Minecraft block

Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks

Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks is a decorative dark building block whose cracked surface ages Nether-style walls and bastion-themed builds.

Block ID minecraft:cracked_polished_blackstone_bricks
Mod Vanilla
Game versions
1.21

Description

Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks is the cracked, weathered-looking variant of Polished Blackstone Bricks, added to Minecraft in Java Edition 1.16 and Bedrock Edition 1.16.0. A furnace turns one Polished Blackstone Bricks block into one Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks block. Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks also generates naturally in bastion remnants and ruined portals in the Nether. Mining takes a pickaxe of any tier — even a wooden pickaxe works — and a block broken without a pickaxe drops nothing.

Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks serves purely as decoration: the cracked surface reads as age and wear on dark walls. Builders lay Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks next to intact Polished Blackstone Bricks so one blackstone wall shows both fresh and damaged sections. Expanding a cracked-brick wall costs intact bricks and fuel, not another Nether mining trip.

Block properties

Item ID minecraft:cracked_polished_blackstone_bricks
/give command /give @p minecraft:cracked_polished_blackstone_bricks
Stackable Yes (64)
Best tool Pickaxe
Renewable Yes
Java Edition 1.16
Bedrock Edition 1.16.0

Guide

How to get Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks in Minecraft

  1. 1

    Travel to the Nether structures

    Search bastion remnants and ruined portals in the Nether: both structures generate Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks naturally.

  2. 2

    Mine with any pickaxe

    Break Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks with a pickaxe — a wooden pickaxe already works. Broken without a pickaxe, the block drops nothing.

  3. 3

    Smelt the intact bricks

    Place Polished Blackstone Bricks in a furnace to turn one intact block into one cracked block — a crafting table is never part of the recipe.

  4. 4

    Build the weathered wall

    Combine Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks with intact Polished Blackstone Bricks on one wall to mark age and damage on dark Nether-style builds.

Fire safety

Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks is not flammable and is not set on fire by lava, so contact with flames and lava leaves the brick wall intact.

How to craft this block

Ingredients: Polished Blackstone Bricks Polished Blackstone Bricks x1
Crafting
Furnace
Polished Blackstone Bricks
Fuel — coal or any other fuel
Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks
1
Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks XP: +0.1 · 10 sec

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Frequently asked questions

Does Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks emit light?

No. Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks emits no light of its own, so dark builds keep the gloomy Nether look.

Can you see through Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks?

No. Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks is a fully opaque, non-transparent block that hides everything behind a cracked-brick wall.

Is Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks part of any crafting recipe?

No. Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks is a decorative block, and no crafting recipe lists cracked bricks as an ingredient.

How many Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks fit in one stack?

64. Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks stacks to 64, so a large cracked-brick supply takes few inventory slots.